Why does the tiger came form
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Once there was a little girl called Sophie, and she was having tea with her mummy in the kitchen. Suddenly there was a ring at the door. Sophie's mummy said, 'I wonder who that could be?'"
For many parents, the opening lines of The Tiger Who Came to Tea are very familiar.
The work, published in 1968, has been read by several generations and tells the story of a tiger who invites himself to tea and eats and drinks all the food and water in Sophie's house. He then leaves, never to return.
"It was just a bedtime story I made up for my daughter when she was two, getting on for three," says Kerr, who also wrote and illustrated the Mog series of picture books.
I knew it by heart, every word. It hadn't changed because you watch your child's face and obviously you leave out bits gradually if they look bored.
"I told it to her again and again and again, and she used to say, 'Talk the tiger'."
Kerr, who turned 90 this year, loved visiting the zoo with her daughter Tacy, and particularly liked looking at the "beautiful" tigers.
"When I decided to do the book, I remember wondering what the tiger should look like, whether he should have clothes."
Kerr grew up in a loving family in pre-World War Two Berlin. Her mother Julia was a composer and her father, Alfred Kerr, a Jewish intellectual and theatre critic. They realised the impending threat from Hitler and Nazi Germany, and publicly criticised the regime.
"These Jewish intellectuals like Alfred Kerr, they immediately understood that this was an attack on the whole [of] humanity, not only on themselves," says German theatre critic Peter von Becker.
"They were, in a way, followers of the great poet Heinrich Heine who said, 'When there are books to be burned, human beings will be burned afterwards', and of course Alfred Kerr's books were burned in 1933 in the Opernplatz, which Goebbels directed."
By 1932 Alfred Kerr was on a Nazi death list and time was running out for the family.
"He'd been warned by somebody he'd never met, a policeman, that they were trying to take his passport away.
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The species of tigers are evolved from their ancestors by generation to generations